Education is a team effort.

I agree with you more than hundred percent, friend. Teachers are there to feed us knowledge on things that we could not learn in our home. If not, why need them while we all have parents? They are responsible to enhance whatever already have gained from our parents. And besides, that's why there is the so-called "formal education". I learned from one of my former professor that it really takes two in obtaining quality education. He sometime told us, his students, that if we don't like the professor, better have interest in the subject...if we don't like the subject, better try to appreciate the teachings of the teacher. But if we don't like both, we better drop the subjects for it will be a waste of time, money and effort. But for me, we do have to like even one, for it will be for our oown benefits. Happy mylotting.

its really true my friend. education is a team effort. but now a days it become mechanical. students are going to colleges only because of the force of parents. the things should change. we, the Indians,hav a history when there exists "guru kula" system. in which all the shishya(students) are camped in GURU'S(teacher's) place and will obey all his orders to gain some knowledge. in that days education is something valuable. we all should work our best for keeping a very good relation btw us and teachers, then only we will get the benefit.

Learning process takes place when there is stimulus and reactions. The stimulus coming from a teacher and the reaction from the students then all of these results in CHANGE in behavior, skills, talents, etc. Now a days, modern technology has made innovations in Educations, there's what we called distance learning where the learners and the learned are separated by space and time.But these do not diminished the goal of education, what happens now is that many distractions are present that can take away concentrations both for teachers and students!

yeah.you are correct. education must be a team effort, one poeple can not teach the students well.

Indeed education is a team effort. It cannot just be a mechanical effort by the teacher to enumerate the things to learn. By his actions even, a teacher continues to "teach" even outside the classroom through modelling. Of course the student also must contribute.

I am so glad you said this! So many teachers in the US think they should have to do nothing to engage students, and so many students think the teacher is there to entertain them. That is one of the big things wrong in public education in the U.S.--that disconnect. Another problem is that in this age of standardized testing, teachers are forced to teach to the test. A teacher who is good with hands-on demonstration cannot spend much time on it because it takes away from test preparation. The students suffer as a result. Hands-on demonstrations should be part of the testing...the testing should not be so paper-and-pencil.

You are very correct, education should be a team effort. Many parents fail to grasp that concept

I absolutely agree. Motivated students and good teachers make the best teams. It's important for the teacher to present the information in such a manner that the student can understand it. But if the latter is unwilling to listen, there's nothing the teacher can say to make him learn. And how can students become motivated when most of the information they're given doesn't relate at all to their life and interests? I think the school curriculum is at fault here.

Ideal relationship between a teacher and a student is simply a human relationship. No more, nor less.Only that this relationship is marked from the outset of the asymmetry:a professorship is a vocation, being a student is not . The student is usually looking for a vocation - or, more frequently, looking for a job. As that will constantly ask: What use is it me? In the professor, if honest, will have to answer in many cases that what has just tried to tell them or show them is not a guarantee nor wealth nor happiness ... teacher-student relationship is so difficult to build, step by step. And it involves both one of the largest art of human communication,which is to listen to the other. But students are often too young to have that patience, and teachers are sometimes too tired to have more patience ... A normal relationship on the team, between teacher and students need time and place and therefore outside the classroom:if the teacher is ready to dialogue, then a student to take an interest, for one problem or another for a teacher or another. Or even for a peer group or another, for "student life" is all that can be better in these years. "